| 1 | Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel. | |
| 2 | Last year, an acre of corn produced an average of 162 bushels. | |
| 3 | Yield - tonnes per hectare, bushels per acre or whatever - is the traditional gauge of agriculture' s performance. | |
| 4 | The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. | |
| 5 | In 1960, the United States sent 36 breeder hogs from Iowa to Yamanashi along with 60,000 bushels of high-grade corn for feed. |